Secret files show how Trump Tower Moscow talks unfolded while Trump heaped praise on Putin. Side by side timelines of Moscow Tower negotiations [between Michael Cohen, Felix Sater, & Moscow] and Trump's evolving public comments on Russia.
by @azeen#Maddowbit.ly/2SvnqAH

Of note: Before Trump signed the Moscow Tower letter of intent, the Trump Org revised the clause stating that the terms of the agreement were to be kept confidential by everyone involved. The edit by Trump Org allowed Trump himself to speak publicly about the deal.#Maddow

Michael Cohen and Felix Sater planned to use Trump’s public praise for Putin to help secure the lucrative Trump Tower Moscow deal. At the same time, they plotted to persuade the Russian president to declare his support for Trump’s candidacy.#Maddow

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SDNY's subpoena to Trump's inaugural committee also asks for records related to tech company Stripe, which processed payments from donors. A key investor of Stripe is Thrive Capital, which, at the time, Jared Kushner co-owned with his brother Josh.#Maddownyti.ms/2UKFPHe

What the @nytimes piece fails to point out is that while tech company Stripe was being paid by the Trump inaugural fund, Jared Kushner was still a key investor in Stripe through his company Thrive, which he did not divest from until spring 2017. #Maddow

NEW: Confidential memo shows how the company of Trump inaugural chair Tom Barrack sought to profit from connections to the Trump admin & foreign dignitaries. The memo was written by inaugural deputy chair Rick Gates.
by @JustinElliott@ilyamarritz#Maddowbit.ly/2DVOdOo

Per the confidential memo from Colony, the company of Tom Barrack, who chaired the inaugural now under criminal investigation: "The key is to strategically cultivate domestic and international relations while avoiding any appearance of lobbying."#Maddow

During inaugural week, Tom Barrack hosted a chairman’s dinner [courtesy of the Trump inaugural slush fund] with his own invite list, which included businesspeople and foreign dignitaries – to advance the interests of his own company, Colony.#Maddow

BREAKING: New York federal prosecutors seek interviews with Trump Organization executives, signaling a growing potential threat to the Trumps from criminal investigations by the Manhattan [SDNY] US Attorney's office.
by @eorden@CristinaAlesci#Maddowcnn.it/2t7gbAL

Trump and his lawyers have long harbored concerns that investigations by New York federal prosecutors may pose greater danger to him and his family than the Mueller probe. Prosecutors' recent interest in Trump Org execs may intensify those fears.#Maddow

One Trump campaign official who was questioned *last summer* by SDNY prosecutors was asked about coordination between Trump Org & the campaign, how Trump Org was structured, and which accounts were used to pay campaign staffers & campaign-related bills.

Secret Files Show How Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded While Trump Heaped Praise On Putin - a side by side timeline with documentation links of Trump Tower Moscow deal discussions and Trump praising Putin during the campaignbuzzfeednews.com/article/azeeng…

I'm catching up on cache of docs in the BF article and will post a few notes on this thread - here's link to 284 page pdf

On 10/9/15 Sater emailed Cohen he was meeting with Andrey Molchanov "to do Trump Moscow" on his site and mentioned that Putin worked for his stepfather who had been the governor of St. Petersburg (Yury Molchanov was Vice Governor)assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5719…